Places jmckinney08 Wants to Go

The site where Charles Dickens gave his first public reading of "A Christmas Carol" in the US.

The remnants of a Gilded Age elegance preserved in the middle of a stark modern tower.

A former waterfront market is now in the center of town due to some interesting Boston engineering.

A mysterious stone embedded at the base of a historic Boston building.

Silverware in the sidewalk outside a grocery store cements this neighborhood’s Italian culinary history.

The colonial home of Paul Revere during the American Revolution.

The first bell ever cast in Boston was cast by Paul Revere...and sounded terrible.

A three-piece musical sculpture installed between the subway tracks at Kendall Station near MIT.

Just your average Marie Antoinette–themed speakeasy in an abandoned 19th-century subway tunnel.

Phil Mortillaro uses keys to bring art back to the Village.

The oldest living tree in Manhattan comes shrouded in sinister legend.

One kilometer of thick brass rod laid out before your eyes.

A room in New York City that contains 250 cubic yards of dirt.

Become a prohibition rebel.

Established in 1937, the oldest candy shop in New York City boasts a rainbow-colored inventory that would make Willy Wonka envious.

This former crime corner has been turned into an eclectic community center.

A notorious punk house turned co-op.

New York City's smallest piece of private property.

Prove you deserve to be fed by Kenny Shopsin.

This lower Manhattan bar is set up in an old bank vault that rests beneath a skyscraper that hides even more historic splendor.

A Pythagorean funhouse that tries, successfully, to prove that math is the coolest thing ever.

A Manhattan office building is home to the world’s largest chess board.

Spinning silently in the lobby of an Art Deco masterwork is a massive vintage model of the Earth.

Slyly buy a shake in the Parker Meridien lobby.